About a third into the story, the main conflict is introduced: one of the knights is the prince in disguise, attempting to lay low from a noble faction attempting to use him as a figurehead in a coup/revolution. He is discovered, and the female lead is taken with the rest of the named knights to flee to an academy until the heat is off. Female lead takes part in the cover story and assumes the identity of a villainess, but none of the normal villainess tropes occur; the rest of the story from here out is a balance of getting leads on the movement of the enemy noble faction and dealing with the mild romantic subplots. I kept expecting a transition into a more traditional "reincarnated female lead gets wrapped into an otome game" plot, but thankfully it never happened, though another reincarnator is revealed near the end of the story that ultimately had no impact on the plot whatsoever.